From Dichotomy to Identity

Sally Sedgwick

Hegel's Critique of Kant

From Dichotomy to Identity

Sally Sedgwick

Description

Sally Sedgwick presents a fresh account of Hegel's critique of Kant's theoretical philosophy. She argues that Hegel offers a compelling critique of and alternative to the conception of cognition that Kant defended in his "Critical" period. The book examines key features of what Kant identifies as the "discursive" character of our mode of cognition, and considers Hegel's reasons for arguing that these features condemn Kant's theoretical philosophy to scepticism as well as dualism. Sedgwick goes on to present in a sympathetic light Hegel's claim to derive from certain Kantian doctrines clues to a superior form of idealism, a form of idealism that better captures the nature of our cognitive powers and their relation to objects.

Hegel's Critique of Kant

From Dichotomy to Identity

Sally Sedgwick

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Intuitive versus Discursive Forms of Understanding in Kant's Critical Philosophy: Introduction2. Organic Unity as the 'True Unity' of the Intuitive Intellect3. Hegel on the 'Subjectivity' of Kant's Idealism4. Hegel on the Transcendental Deduction of the First Critique 5. Subjectivity as Part of an Original Identity6. The Question-Begging Nature of Kantian Critique: Kant on the Arguments of the AntinomiesBibliographyIndex

Hegel's Critique of Kant

From Dichotomy to Identity

Sally Sedgwick

Author Information

Sally Sedgwick is Professor of Philosophy and Affiliated Professor of Germanic Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1985, and until 2003 was on the faculty at Dartmouth College. She has held visiting positions at Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and the universities of Bonn, Bern and Luzern. She has been awarded grants by NEH, ACLS, DAAD, and the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung. Her publications include numerous essays on Kant and Hegel, and the monograph, Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals: An Introduction (2008). She is editor of The Reception of Kant's Critical Philosophy: Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel (2000). In the academic year of 2009-10, she was President of the Central
Division of the American Philosophical Association.

Hegel's Critique of Kant

From Dichotomy to Identity

Sally Sedgwick

Reviews and Awards

"[Her reading] does much to dispel some of the cruder characterizations of Hegel's criticisms of Kant, and to show that these criticisms are deeper than often supposed . . . [The book] will therefore clearly make a considerable mark on any future debates in this area, and I would expect it to become a central point of reference."--Robert Stern, British Journal of the History of Philosophy

"The book is carefully argued and gives the most comprehensive account yet of Hegel's engagement with Kant's theoretical philosophy . . . As a whole, this book sets a new standard for research on the relation of Kant and Hegel. . . It should be required reading for anyone hoping to comprehend the origins and aims of Hegel's project."--Dean Moyar, Mind

"Sedgwick's interpretations of the nature and roots of Hegel's critique should be immediately adopted as the new standard line."--David Landy, Kantian Review

"Hegels Critique of Kant is a truly exemplary work of scholarship and will hopefully become regarded quickly as a classic study on one of the most interesting yet difficult philosophical relationships one can encounter."--Paul Giladi, University of Sheffield

"Hegel's Critique of Kant amply rewards the patience of those who have been eagerly awaiting a book-length treatment of the position Sally Sedgwick has been developing over a number of years through her engagement with classical German philosophy. The book offers an original thesis with characteristic clarity, fine conceptual articulation and an expository style that combines the virtues of immanent interpretations with those of reconstructive ones. Careful reading of the primary texts is put to the service of showing what is true in our philosophical past."--Katerina Deligiorgi, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews